Saturday, June 01, 2013

The It's My Time of Year Weekly Link Round-Up

Yes, it's that time of year again. The time when I don't particularly care if we get out and about much. Why? Because I love spending time in the pool with a succession of good books. Even Denis has a water-proof case for his iPod so he can float around listening to audiobooks.

I know I promised a post about Leakey's Bookshop in Inverness and it hasn't turned up yet, but I figure if I hurry up and post these links for you, I can get the one about Leakey's posted before my self-imposed deadline is up. Nothing like running down to the wire, eh? So without further ado---

A letter has been recently found in which Rudyard Kipling admitted to plagiarizing some of his best known works. And speaking of Kipling, it just wasn't his week. He and Agatha Christie are also accused of turning Britain into a nation of passive racists.

On a brighter-- and much more welcome note-- have you heard about Sophia Moss from Louisiana? This five-year-old read 875 books in one school year.

Don't tell anyone, but I have a thing for woolly mammoths, and scientists just found one in Siberia that still had liquid blood.

CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker will publish a series of novels based on the upcoming reality TV show, Whodunnit?

No much here this week, except for a YouTube video that made me drool over McIntyre's Books, an independent bookstore in North Carolina. Next time I'm their neck of the woods, you don't have to guess where I'm headed!

That's it for this week. Don't forget to stop by next weekend when I'll have a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure!

Lucky you having a pool in which to relax and read. I can't see anyone in the Big Apple doing that, unless one treks for an hour on the subway to a very hot, crowded beach. Not my cup of tea.

I'll sit in my air-conditioned room and read, sipping iced tea.

I have to comment on one of the articles in the links round-up. I have never read anything by John Barnes but I completely agree with him. I've never liked Kipling as his racism and superiority is quite prominent in his writings.

And when I was 19 and reading the Hercule Poirot books, as someone with many Eastern European Jewish relatives, I was offended by Agatha Christie's anti-Semitism, which I noticed and also was put off by her attitudes towards people of color, including immigrants. So I quit reading her books.

I haven't noticed these attitudes in the Poirot movies with David Suchet, and I think the dialogues were cleaned up a bit, which is fine with me.

Many of the things we watch on television have been cleaned up in one way or another, especially if they're based on published books.

I noticed the same things you did when I read Kipling and Christie, and that's one of the reasons why I didn't enjoy their books and stopped reading them. But I know for a fact that many of the things I read and enjoy contain things that greatly offend others. Sometimes I think the human race is just a huge bundle of exposed nerves.

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